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- Category: Budget Summary
- Category: Business
- Allowable expenses for the self-employed
- Loans to Participators
- Simplified expenses on motor vehicles
- What is a UK property business
- What is a salaried member of an LLP
- New 40% First Year Allowance now in force
- Expenses for the self-employed
- Pre-trading expenditure for companies
- HMRC contacting sole traders
- Building value in your business
- Taxation of entertainment expenses
- How should multiple self-employed incomes be treated
- Registering informal money transfer businesses
- Why flexible planning is advisable
- Changes to online filing of accounts at Companies House
- Women in leadership roles
- When is a hobby a business
- Beware false business rates warnings
- Roll-out of new digital markets regime
- Perseverance is the key to sales success
- What to Expect from the Chancellor’s Spring Statement 2025
- The UK economic outlook for 2025
- Applying for business start-up loans
- Bank of England eases base rate to 4.75%
- Thinking of selling your business?
- Category: Business Support
- Companies House ID verification
- Government Backing your Business programme
- Tougher action on late payments
- New employers check list
- Covering basic business risks
- Employment law changes pressure small businesses
- Why cyber security is now a business survival issue
- Cash flow resilience in uncertain trading conditions
- Hedging against rising costs
- Interest rate outlook for 2026
- Data Protection rules are still alive
- Business.gov.uk advice selling to international markets
- Managing stock turnover
- Income from spare capacity
- Ways businesses can reduce fuel bills
- Cash flow challenges facing small businesses
- Exit planning, an essential step for business owners
- Business solvency, why it matters
- Accelerate Return on Investment
- Reducing energy consumption
- AI and the future of work: why healthcare remains resilient
- Renewed conflict in the Middle East
- Creative businesses to benefit from government finance package
- Business exit planning matters
- New business formations exceed business “deaths”
- Budgeting and forecasting in a period of lower confidence
- Business rates support and cash flow for hospitality businesses
- Turning waste disposal into an income stream
- Do you need a company audit in the UK?
- What banks look at when a small business applies for a loan
- Company liquidations and insolvencies are still elevated
- Learning from mistakes in business
- Cash flow pressures
- Funding options for asset acquisition
- Avoid over-stocking
- The value of an overhead audit
- Outlook For Food And Energy Prices In The Year Ahead
- The link between planning and progress
- How a business grows financially by retaining profits
- Preparing for tighter credit conditions in 2026
- Directors liability for company debts
- How many businesses are there in the UK?
- Reviewing insurance cover
- Understanding the responsibilities of company directors
- Facing change with confidence
- Valuing and pricing goods and services
- UK productivity remains disappointingly weak
- Why solvency is the true test of business strength
- Business meetings – Face to face or online?
- Winning new contracts without offering punitive credit terms
- Building financial resilience in uncertain times
- Profitability through better management information
- Five goals every small business owner should set
- Choosing the right way to buy a vehicle for your business
- What is the recent £150bn tech investment deal?
- Understanding working capital and why it matters
- Why you should maintain a tax reserve
- GOV.UK One Login – enhanced security from 13 Oct 2025
- What insurance cover should a company consider?
- Cash flow resilience and access to funding
- Keeping your best people with flexible working
- Why increasing an overdraft to fund losses is a dangerous game
- How to gain a competitive advantage
- Improve cash flow with smarter invoicing habits
- Management buyouts: benefits for owners and teams
- The value of retaining profits to support cash flow and growth
- Employing family members in your business
- Choosing a Business Rates Agency
- Red tape eased for new cafes and bars
- UK Export Finance: Empowering UK Businesses to Go Global
- Big cuts to electricity network costs for heavy industries
- Choosing the right KPI’s for your business
- Why industry expertise matters when starting a business
- Why exit planning matters – even in the early years of your business
- Are you ready for Companies House ID checks?
- How AI is changing your business
- Redress for Post Office Capture victims
- BT Eyes Deeper Job Cuts as AI Reshapes Telecoms
- Four critically important KPIs
- Government sells last Nat West shares
- How working capital is funded
- Buying a business – a simple due diligence checklist
- Top 10 skills every business owner should acquire
- The value of applying for trade marks
- The legal responsibilities of directors
- Still recording your accounts on spreadsheets?
- How to Increase Gross Profit Returns
- Fresh Ideas for Additional Revenue Streams
- Access to Funding and Credit
- Cybersecurity
- UK Responds to New US Tariffs
- £13.9bn of R&D funding
- Dealing with supply line interruptions
- Managing gross profit returns
- Recycling changes
- Pubs and premises insurance
- How Small Businesses Can Survive a Recession
- How to Approach Your Bank for a Business Loan
- Business Advice: An Investment, Not a Cost
- Why Adequate Business Insurance is Essential for Small Businesses
- Government backed Start-Up Loans
- Sources of funding for small businesses
- Essential Credit Control for SMEs
- The benefits of benchmarking financial results
- E-invoicing consultation
- Should you incorporate your business?
- How to Check the Creditworthiness of New Customers
- A Small Business Guide to Exporting and International Trade
- Late Payment Support for Small Businesses – How to Protect Your Cash Flow
- Investing in new equipment for your business?
- Why Protecting Intellectual Property is Important
- Government Unlocks Success for Small Businesses
- Launch Your Dream Business: 10 Must-Know Steps
- What does EBITDA stand for?
- R&D receives a welcome boost in the Budget
- Keeping an eye on competitors
- Managing business cashflow
- Government crack-down on late payers
- Business cashflow
- Trade Mark protection
- Beware overtrading
- What is the new National Wealth Fund
- Business sectors subject to AML regulation
- Persistence pays off
- £32m for AI projects
- AI expert to lead action plan
- Labour market stats not encouraging
- Your stake in your business
- The new Chancellor’s first speech
- Responding to a personal data breach
- Exit plans
- Translation
- Extracting profits from a small, limited company
- What is a group company structure?
- Tax relief for training costs
- Setting up as a sole trader
- Customs declaration deadline
- New Companies House powers
- Category: Capital allowances
- What is the Annual Investment Allowance?
- Claiming the Annual Investment Allowance
- New First Year Allowance from 1 January 2026
- Extension of FYA for zero-emission cars and charge points
- Could you claim the Small Pool Allowance?
- Tax write-offs for an electric car with zero emissions
- Tax liability if you sell a business asset
- Types of tax allowances for capital expenditure
- Category: Capital Gains Tax
- Tax when selling overseas property
- Can you claim Business Asset Disposal Relief
- Tax effects of living away from your home
- How capital gains are linked with Income Tax
- Gifts to a spouse or civil partner
- When is CGT payable on gains during 2026-27
- Tax relief when incorporating a business
- Living away from home?
- Business Asset Disposal Relief – tax increase from April 2026
- Rolling over capital gains
- Tax if selling a second property
- Tax effects of letting out part of your home
- Claiming Business Asset Rollover Relief
- Eligibility for Business Asset Disposal Relief
- Selling a second property?
- Nominating a property as your home
- Selling your UK home and living abroad
- What is a demerger?
- Business Asset Disposal Relief – the present rates
- Report and pay Capital Gains Tax
- Claiming lettings relief
- Business Asset Disposal Relief changes
- The present limits for Business Assets Disposal Relief
- Holding over gains on gifts
- Found objects and Capital Gains Tax
- Capital Gains valuations of goodwill
- File and paying CGT after property sales
- Business Asset Disposal Relief – forthcoming changes
- Private Residence Relief – when it applies
- Rolling Over Capital Gains
- Deferring gains using Incorporation Relief
- Business Asset Disposal Relief rates from April 2025
- CGT holding over gains if you gift business assets
- Making a negligible value claim with HMRC
- More tax on business disposals from April 25
- Letting out part of your home – claiming lettings relief
- Tax when transferring assets during divorce proceedings
- Rolling over capital gains
- Designating a property as your main residence
- Future increases in CGT on sale of a business
- Capital Gains Tax – the new rates
- The Substantial Shareholdings Exemption
- Tax if you live abroad and sell UK home
- Changes to CGT Investors’ Relief
- Changes to rates of tax on carried interest
- Autumn Budget 2024 – Capital Gains Tax
- Will 10% tax on business disposals survive?
- Current rates for Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
- Qualifying for Business Asset Disposal Relief
- CGT Gift Hold-Over Relief
- What is Gift Hold-Over Relief?
- Don’t forget to report property gains
- Sharing your home with tenants
- Current CGT rates
- Gains on sale of shares
- CGT Incorporation Relief
- Connected persons for tax purposes
- Non-resident UK property sales
- CGT Rollover Relief
- Category: Construction Industry Scheme
- Category: Corporate Governance & Regulation
- Companies House publishes its business plan
- Verify your ID at Companies House
- Update on Companies House plans for profit and loss filing
- Companies House blunder
- Meaning of “bona vacantia”
- What Is a person with significant control?
- Company information in the public domain
- Company Voluntary Arrangements
- Why ID verification is supposedly good for business
- Have you verified your ID at Companies House?
- 16 years old – the minimum age for a company director
- Company director disqualification
- When dividends cannot be paid
- HMRC to increase anti-money laundering fees
- Verifying your ID at Companies House
- New requirements for Overseas Entities
- New requirement – verifying ID at Companies House
- Company changes you must report
- Verifying identity at Companies House – From April 2025
- Dealing with company unpaid debts
- Online information about a company
- Changing a company’s year end date
- Is there a partnership in place?
- What is a PSC?
- Penalties for late filing of company accounts
- What is an appropriate address for a company?
- Ordering documents from Companies House
- Restarting a dormant company
- Do not respond if you receive this letter
- Register an overseas company
- Closing a limited company
- Company names – new regulations
- Category: Corporation Tax
- Can you claim R & D relief?
- Key person policies and tax relief
- Filing obligations for private limited companies
- The marginal Corporation Tax rates
- Increase in company late filing penalties
- Corporation Tax 19% or 25%?
- Creative Industry Corporation Tax reliefs
- Reliefs and allowances for Corporation Tax purposes
- Register an offshore property developer for Corporation Tax
- How to pay corporation tax online
- Corporation tax roadmap
- Transfer pricing consultation
- Present rates of Corporation Tax
- Tax refunds for dissolved companies
- Definition of R&D for tax purposes
- R & D clearance consultation
- Group relief for trading losses
- Tax relief for structures and buildings expenditure
- Tax relief for zero emission cars and electric charge points
- Could you claim R&D relief?
- Taxation of double cab pick-ups
- Relief for company tax losses
- Carry forward a company trading loss
- No change to Corporation Tax rates?
- Corporate claims for charitable donations
- Tax relief for goodwill purchases
- The marginal rate of Corporation Tax
- Company filing obligations
- Claim full expensing or 50% FYA
- Post cessation transactions
- How to claim R&D expenditure credit
- Category: Customs Duties
- Category: Duties
- Category: Employee Benefits
- A reminder of tax-free trivial benefits
- Pay back private fuel costs and avoid tax charge
- New rules for working from home from April 2026
- Company car expenses and benefits – what’s exempt?
- The scope of the trivial benefits legislation
- Avoiding the car fuel benefit charge
- Taxable company benefits
- Tax and trivial benefits
- Taxable benefits for use of company car
- Using your own car for work purposes
- Claim for a business journey in a private vehicle
- Repay private fuel provided for company cars
- Still time to repay private fuel costs and avoid tax charge
- Tax and employee suggestion schemes
- Make the most of trivial benefit payments 2025-26
- What is a salary sacrifice?
- Check or update company car tax details
- Tax-exempt employee loans
- Payrolling employee benefits
- Advising HMRC of employees’ company car details
- Using the car fuel rates
- Not so Trivial Tax Benefits
- Medical and dental care for employees
- Tips at work
- Late night taxi for an employee
- Tax and employee share schemes
- Employee suggestion schemes
- Beneficial tax-exempt loans
- New tips guidance published
- Category: Employment & Payroll
- Tax and termination payments
- Filing deadlines for reporting expenses and benefits
- Increase in employment costs 2026-27
- Employing young people in your business
- Entertaining employees
- New employee starter checklist
- PAYE rules for labour supply chains (umbrella companies)
- Starting or changing jobs
- Expanding workplace benefits relief
- Autumn Budget 2025 – Minimum Wage increases
- Claim flat rate expenses for work clothing and tools
- Enforcement of the minimum wage
- Claiming for working at home
- The Employment Allowance – what you can claim
- Use HMRC app and be job-ready this summer
- Employing your family
- How to check employment status
- Tax relief if required to work from home
- Statutory Redundancy rights
- Don’t forget to update your NMW and NLW wage rates
- Tax-free redundancy payments
- Claiming tax relief for job expenses
- Business mileage with your own vehicle
- Car and van fuel benefit charges from 6 April 2025
- An overview of salary sacrifice arrangements
- Payrolling of benefits in kind
- Redundancy pay and tax
- Employing an apprentice
- Claim tax deduction for working from home
- Checking employees DBS certificates
- Living Wage rates to be overhauled
- Check employment status for tax
- Statutory Pay assistance
- Payback company car private fuel
- Category: Employment Law
- Where a formal job offer effectively creates a binding contract
- Can a tribunal be fair after all is long said and done?
- A pattern of workplace harassment may be treated as a continuous event
- Preparing for a new employment landscape in 2026/27: Further protections
- Preparing for a new employment landscape in 2026: “Day One” Entitlements
- When is a “self-employed” contractor a de facto employee?
- Why disregarding the minimum wage constitutes modern slavery
- Intimidating claimants with costs orders may be at an end.
- Payments made into employee benefit trusts constitute taxable income
- Take care when labelling a bonus as discretionary in a contract
- Suing whistleblowers for a breach of confidence is not a viable strategy
- Employers may now be personally liable for unfair dismissal claims
- When disciplinary processes and non-compete clauses implode
- Early termination of probation can constitute wrongful dismissal
- Tread carefully when using temporary contracts to confer tax breaks
- Beware of the risks of engaging employees as sham contractors
- Don’t be tempted to withhold pay as a form of leverage
- Risks of engaging employees as sham contractors
- Don’t rush to judgement over pending tribunal claims
- Balancing access to justice and abuse of process
- Tripartite arrangements don’t necessarily enable an agency to escape accountability
- A magical clause does not necessarily nullify employment status
- An employee’s emergency contact details are strictly private
- Being paid directly is not a confirmation that you are an employee
- Pivotal role of the union Certification Officer in addressing complaints
- When changing a company’s name absolves a daughter company of its obligations
- A return to gender rationality in the office? What does the Supreme Court ruling mean for trans people in the workplace?
- The importance of discretion – don’t send inappropriate messages during working hours!
- The innocent touch – where a lack of clear guidelines and policies makes a dismissal more likely to be unfair
- Employment Restrictions After Termination: Be Cautious
- Beware of rushing to judgement before terminating employment.
- Self-employment cannot be used as a tax smokescreen for contracted employees
- Not all hurt feelings are uncapped & costly
- It is not always possible to mend fences – Reinstatement is not always a practicable option where there is a breakdown in employment relations
- Beware the legal minefield of the transferring of contractual undertakings
- Just because an employee is a lawful resident of the UK does not give them the right to work
- When it comes to pensions, it is of paramount importance to Re-DOC on time!
- Bolt ruling seals the case against sham contracts
- UK Government’s sweeping changes to UK employment law
- An outline of the Employment Rights Bill
- Service tipping law now in force
- Business leaders collaborate to Make Work Pay
- Category: Excise duties
- Category: General
- Government reviews access to face-to-face banking services
- Increase in approved mileage rates
- Government measures to ease rising fuel costs
- New measures aimed at easing living costs
- Fiscal drag explained
- Non-tax considerations when returning to the UK
- New legal duty for landlords under the renters’ rights act
- Beware Winter Fuel Payment scams
- Reducing domestic energy costs
- New support measures to allow affordable debt repayment
- Crackdown on energy profiteering
- Action to reduce cost of living pressures
- Tax-free and taxable State Benefits
- Seven million people started new jobs in 2025
- Spring Statement 2026
- Sign up for online services
- The rise of the silver economy
- Scottish Budget Statement 2026-27
- Welsh Budget 2026-27
- Protecting your online passwords
- Spring Statement 2026
- What factors affect a person’s credit rating?
- What is the advance tax certainty service?
- Pre-tax year end planning
- Saving to pay tax
- Bank of England delivers narrow vote rate cut
- Increase in savings guarantee for bank deposits
- The likely direction of interest rates in 2026
- Increase in the London congestion charge from January 2026
- Check when you can expect a reply from HMRC
- Set up your tax app with HMRC
- Tell HMRC about unpaid tax on cryptoassets
- Check if you can cash in a Child Trust Fund
- Understanding the tax implications of divorce
- Bank deposit protection limits set to rise
- Beware scams pretending to be HMRC
- Budget date announced
- Using the 159 helpline
- What is Support for Mortgage Interest?
- Rules to protect effects of debanking
- Pre-Budget tax planning – act now
- Challenging your Council Tax band
- Bank Rate trimmed to 4%
- Shared home ownership
- The impact of frozen personal allowances
- Autumn Budget 2025: What Changes Might Be on the Horizon?
- Tax gap estimated at 5.3% for 2023-24
- Winter Fuel Payments reinstated
- 2025 Spending Review published
- Effects of Rachel Reeves’ Spending Review
- The value of tax planning for high net worth individuals
- HMRC interest rates following Bank of England rate cut
- Landmark economic deal with United States
- Electronic invoicing consultation
- More in line for savings boost
- Have you set up your Personal Tax Account yet?
- Repeal of furnished holiday lets regime
- Frozen tax allowances and fiscal drag
- HMRC interest rate increases
- HMRC time to pay arrangements
- Applying for student loans
- Time off for jury service
- Cut in interest rates
- How to Stop Future Payments on Your Debit or Credit Card
- Google to Tackle Fake Reviews Following CMA Investigation
- Understanding the UK’s Bank Deposit Guarantee Scheme
- Debt Management Plan
- Ticket touts’ days are numbered
- WASPI claims – apology but no compensation
- New online tax tools for the self-employed
- Government Forces Water Companies to Double Compensation
- Self-assessment scam warning
- Protect your land and property from fraud
- Fuel prices report by Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- How Council Tax is calculated
- What are your concerns?
- Subscription scams
- What is an acceptable pensions income?
- HMRC promotes its app
- EV or diesel – for and against
- Help to Save scheme extended
- Crackdown on insurance fraud
- Recent speculation on forthcoming Budget
- New powers for banks to combat fraudsters
- Using the GOV.UK ID Check app
- Chancellor unveils new measures
- Cash in Child Trust Funds
- Setting up a Civil Partnership
- Beware fake parking fine texts
- What is fiscal drag?
- What is fuel duty?
- Fraudsters impersonating Insolvency Service staff
- Ask for advice
- Claiming Child Trust Fund cash
- Could an interest rate reduction reduce government expenditure?
- Negative equity
- Guidance for charities on managing public disorder
- Road fuel costs still too high
- Government to deal with £22bn “black hole” in finances
- First interest rates cut in over four years
- Labour win landslide election result
- New government
- Child Benefit for 16 – 19 year olds
- Types of HMRC enquiries
- New Brooms
- Falling inflation – what does it mean for you?
- Change
- New protection for consumers
- General election date announced
- Act now to claim dormant funds
- Cyber protection laws introduced
- Category: HMRC notices
- Landlord tax and National Insurance considerations
- Meaning of trade for tax purposes
- Tax and property when you separate or divorce
- VCT and EIS changes
- Taxable & tax-free state benefits
- Pay for imports declared via the CDS
- Claiming 4-years Foreign Income and Gains relief
- Deduction of tax on yearly interest
- The Enterprise Investment Scheme tax benefits
- Are casual payments taxable?
- Who needs to register for anti-money laundering supervision
- War Widows Recognition Payments Scheme
- How do HMRC define “wholly and exclusively” for tax purposes
- Reclaiming duty moving goods to Northern Ireland
- Interactive online tool for tax compliance check
- Higher penalties for MTD filers
- Save up to £2,000 a year on childcare costs
- The transition from FHL to Property Rental business
- State Benefits – What is taxable and what is not
- Tax treatment of income after cessation
- LLP salaried members
- Records you must keep if self-employed
- How far back can HMRC assess under-declared taxes?
- Treatment of post-cessation receipts and payments
- How umbrella companies work
- Selling online and paying tax
- Gifts of land and buildings to charities
- Close company anti-avoidance measure
- Take goods with you to sell abroad
- Who qualifies for Tax-Free Childcare?
- When dividends cannot be paid
- Definition of living together
- Let Property Campaign
- When you cannot use the Property or Trading Allowances
- Child benefit for 16 to 19 year olds
- Taxable and non-taxable State Benefits
- Check if HMRC contact is genuine
- Do you need to register for Economic Crime Levy?
- Category: Income Tax
- Self-assessment tax penalties
- Further registration for Making Tax Digital
- A reminder to consider the Marriage Allowance
- Are you affected by the High Income Child Benefit Charge?
- A reminder of the tax rules for online sellers
- Tax on rental income
- Claiming to reduce payments on account
- Making Tax Digital – which software to use
- Do you need to register for self-assessment?
- Working out your UK residence status
- The 60% tax band
- How dividends are taxed
- How the Marriage Allowance works
- Tax on savings interest
- Setting off losses against other income sources
- Filing your 2025-26 self-assessment tax return
- Who pays Income Tax at Scottish rates?
- Do you have a personal tax account yet?
- MTD – when the quarterly returns to HMRC are due
- MTD for Income Tax – are you affected?
- Could you claim the Marriage Allowance
- Estimate your Income Tax for the current tax year
- How long should you keep your tax records
- The Rent a Room Scheme
- What are dividends and how are they taxed
- Changes to the calculation of Income Tax
- Tax allowances frozen for 2026-27
- Who will be subject to MTD for IT from 6 April 2026
- Claiming a tax refund from HMRC
- How to claim child benefits
- Check how to claim a tax refund
- HMRC reminder for self-employed and landlords
- Who needs to file a self-assessment tax return
- 31 January deadline met by more than 11.48 million people
- Car and travel costs if self employed
- MTD for Income Tax – check if and when you need to use it
- Basis period reform – spreading rules for payment
- Struggling to meet tax payments this month?
- Saving tax using the Marriage Allowance
- MTD for Income Tax – what’s required from April 2026
- Did you file your tax return over the festive period?
- Are you ready for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax?
- HMRC’s Time to Pay service
- Student jobs paying tax
- Property and savings income subject to new tax rates
- Winter Fuel Payment tax charge
- Update from HMRC on MTD testing
- Less than 2 months to self-assessment filing deadline
- Who pays Income Tax in Scotland
- Autumn Budget 2025 – Personal Tax changes
- MTD – qualifying income
- Christmas crafters and tax
- Paying tax arrears using HMRC payment plans
- Updating your tax code
- When you don’t need to make payments on account
- Loss of personal allowance – the £100k ceiling
- The Marriage Allowance if circumstances change
- What is the High Income Child Benefit Charge?
- Heads up for company directors
- State benefits taxable and non-taxable
- Sharing income from jointly held property
- Tax-free income from letting a room in your home
- Two important 2025 self-assessment deadlines
- Dividend taxes will they increase?
- What is the settlement legislation?
- Are you selling goods or services on a digital platform?
- Why your tax code might change
- What are the current Income Tax bands and allowances?
- MTD for IT taxpayer exemption
- What happens if you cannot pay your tax bill?
- Help with outstanding tax bills
- Making Tax Digital – important deadline dates
- New self-assessment services announced by HMRC
- Helping family or friends with their tax
- Goodbye remittance basis hello FIG
- Struggling to fund your July tax payment?
- Do you have additional income streams?
- What if you no longer need to submit a tax return
- Tax returns for a deceased taxpayer
- Who is liable to Income Tax at Scottish rates?
- Accounting on a cash basis
- Claiming for uniforms, work clothing and tools
- Tax rules for savings interest
- Who must send in a tax return
- When do the higher rates of Income Tax apply
- Do not forget to claim the marriage allowance
- Can you reduce your 31 July tax payment on account
- Could you extend Child Benefit claim?
- Why filing early makes sense
- MTD for Income Tax deadline is approaching
- Income reporting threshold increased
- Is income from hobbies taxable?
- Less than a year before MTD for Income Tax starts
- Tax relief for landlords replacing domestic items
- Child Benefit increases April 2025
- Checking your tax code for 2025-26
- Beneficial interests in jointly held property
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
- Requesting evidence of earnings
- Rental business mortgage relief
- Claiming professional fees and subscriptions
- Tax and Maintenance Payments
- UK residence and tax issues
- Is your extra income taxable?
- Jointly owned property – no partnership
- 31 January deadline met by more than 11.5 million people
- Self-employed must report profits on tax year basis
- How to check your tax code
- Reforms to taxation of non-doms from April 2025
- How donations to charity can provide tax relief
- Penalties for late filing of tax returns
- Last month to file 2023-24 tax return
- What expenses can be claimed against rental income
- Is your trade in goods or services a business
- Cash-basis default position for self-employed
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax volunteers
- Claiming Child Benefits online
- Spreading tax payments by using Time to Pay
- Scottish Budget Statement 2025-26
- No tax changes for online sellers
- Are you eligible to claim the Marriage Allowance?
- How to interpret your tax code
- Landlords with undeclared Income
- Making Tax Digital – the next step
- How to claim a tax refund
- Limits on Income Tax reliefs
- Tax changes for Furnished Holiday Lets property owners
- Changes to HICBC
- Is Income Tax morphing into a stealth tax?
- HMRC shares 5 common reasons for helpline calls
- Changing your tax return
- Due date for paper self-assessment tax return
- Payments on account for self-assessment
- Two October self-assessment deadlines
- Claims to reduce payments on account
- Myths about self-assessment
- MTD for Income Tax draws closer
- Self-assessment deadlines 2023-24
- Advising HMRC about additional income
- Update on High Income Child Benefit Charge
- Do you have a personal tax account?
- Paying tax via your tax code
- Holiday Lets – the demise of tax concessions
- What your tax code means
- Income Tax in Scotland
- Are you claiming the marriage allowance
- Is your income over £100,000?
- Interest on children’s savings
- Self-assessment payments on account
- Filing your tax return early
- Need to register for self-assessment?
- Carry back charitable donations
- Self-employed tax basis period reform
- Category: Inheritance Tax
- IHT – gifts made with reservation of benefits
- Tax-free gifts for Inheritance Tax purposes
- Settlor retains interest in settled property
- The 7-year gift rule is still available
- Tax on inherited property, money or shares
- Changes to Agricultural and Business Property Relief reforms
- Agricultural and business property relief changes
- IHT treatment of unused pension funds and death benefits
- Inheritance Tax and CGT relief for national heritage assets
- Gifts with reservation of benefit
- Unused pension funds and IHT from April 2027
- Trusts and Income Tax
- Who can claim the IHT residence nil rate band
- Estate valuation for IHT purposes
- Current Inheritance Tax thresholds
- IHT Agricultural and Business Property Relief changes confirmed
- IHT Unused Pension Funds and Death Benefits changes
- Double Tax Conventions and IHT
- Current IHT gift reliefs
- IHT exemption – normal expenditure out of income
- Changes to IHT from April 2025
- Probate waiting times halved
- Gifts exempt from Inheritance Tax
- Tax chores if managing a deceased person’s estate
- Tax return for deceased person
- Inheritance Tax thresholds and the RNRB
- IHT nil rate band reduction for large estates
- Seven year rule still applies – IHT PETs
- What is a discretionary trust?
- Changes to Agricultural and Business Property Relief
- Autumn Budget 2024 – Inheritance Tax changes
- Gifts and Inheritance Tax
- IHT unused Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB)
- What qualifies for IHT Business Relief
- Considering a significant gift?
- Inheritance and tax
- Transferring unused IHT residence nil rate band
- Lifetime transfers and liability to IHT
- Category: Miscellaneous
- Category: National Insurance
- When to consider voluntary National Insurance
- National Insurance liability on benefits in kind
- Self-employed National Insurance
- Filling in NIC contribution gaps
- Check your National Insurance record
- Defer paying Class 1 National Insurance on a second job
- National Insurance credits and Child Benefit
- Paying Class 4 NICs
- Applying for Home Responsibilities Protection
- Applying for a National Insurance number
- Don’t forget to pay your Class 1A NIC
- Employers, don’t forget to pay Class 1A NIC
- Deadline for paying Class 1A NIC
- Reminder of Employer NIC changes from April 25
- Self-Employed National Insurance Contributions
- Exploring National Insurance Credits
- Reminder of Employer’s NIC changes from April 25
- Finding your National Insurance number
- Apply for or locate a National Insurance number
- The Likely Effects of Employers’ NIC Increases in 2025
- Autumn Budget 2024 – NIC changes
- Boosting your State Pension
- Class 4 National Insurance payments
- Deferring Class 1 NIC contributions
- Don’t miss out on Home Responsibilities Protection
- Present self-employed NIC rates
- The NIC Employment Allowance
- Finding your National Insurance number
- Directors and National Insurance
- Deferring National Insurance payments
- Category: News & Events
- Disruption to our phone lines and internet
- Disruption to our main phone number
- We’re Moving!
- Changes at our offices from Thursday 5th November
- Updated Coronavirus response
- Our response to Coronavirus
- Osborne looking towards the General Election
- Employers – are you claiming your allowance?
- George Osborne fires the starting pistol for general election campaign
- Young and Co. Celebrate 30 Years in Business
- Guide to Taxation for Landlords
- New tax free limit announced for company loans
- Companies to face increased National Minimum Wage (NMW) Fines
- Time to think about your tax return
- Category: Overseas personal tax issues
- Category: Overseas tax issues
- Category: Payroll
- How bonuses are taxed
- Changes to reporting of BiKs
- Annual payroll reporting chores
- Payroll annual reporting obligations
- P45s, P11Ds and P60s – what are they?
- What counts as working time for minimum wage purposes
- Fixing problems with running payroll
- Setting up a payroll scheme
- Reversal of requirement to report more detailed employee hours paid
- Mandating the Payrolling of benefits in kind update
- Autumn Budget 2024 – Minimum Wage increases
- Starter checklist for PAYE
- Employing under 16-year-olds and young workers
- Statutory redundancy pay
- Employing staff for the first time?
- Category: Pension
- Pension tax relief and allowances
- NIC and tax after reaching State Pension age
- Still time to top up your pension contributions
- Why inflation matters when funding pension funds
- Workplace pensions
- Inheriting Additional State Pension
- Autumn Budget 2025 – Pension changes
- Check your State Pension forecast
- Tax relief for employer contributions to a pension scheme
- What if your pension contributions are excessive?
- What is the pension’s Money Purchase Annual Allowance?
- Pension contributions, net pay or relief at source?
- Check your State Pension forecast online
- Claiming tax relief on pension contributions
- Pension tax-free lump sums
- Higher rate tax relief on pension contributions
- Inheriting spouse’s State Pension
- Tax on inherited private pension pots
- Pension fund withdrawal options
- New brooms to deliver better pension frameworks
- Check your State Pension age
- Tracing lost pension details
- Higher rate relief pension contributions
- Pension Credit action week
- Could you claim Pension Credits?
- Check your State Pension forecast
- Pension contributions – claiming higher rate tax relief
- Review your State Pension estimate
- Check your State Pension forecast
- Category: Personal
- Category: Press Releases
- Office closure
- New UK tax rates for 2018-2019
- Well Done!
- Farewell to Lewis
- New UK tax rates for 2017-2018
- The end of an era
- New UK tax rates for 2016-2017
- Self-assessment scam emails
- Young & Co host the first in a series of Breakfast Seminars on Auto Enrolment
- Pensions Automatic Enrolment
- On song, as Accountancy Firm Young & Co sponsor Herefordshire Military Charities Concert at Herefordshire Cathedral
- Category: Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Category: Tax credits
- Category: Tax Diary
- Tax Diary July/August 2026
- Tax Diary June/July 2026
- Tax Diary May/June 2026
- Tax Diary April/May 2026
- Tax Diary March/April 2026
- Tax Diary February/March 2026
- Tax Diary January/February 2026
- Tax Diary December 2025/January 2026
- Tax Diary November/December 2025
- Tax Diary October/November 2025
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- Tax Diary May/June 2025
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- Tax Diary February/March 2025
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- Tax Diary December 2024/January 2025
- Tax Diary November/December 2024
- Tax Diary October/November 2024
- Tax Diary September/October 2024
- Tax Diary August/September 2024
- Tax Diary July/August 2024
- Tax Diary June/July 2024
- Category: Uncategorised
- Category: Value Added Tax
- VAT – opting to tax property
- VAT Cash Accounting
- Reclaiming VAT on car leasing costs
- Reclaiming VAT on taxi and ride-hailing fares
- VAT Flat Rate Scheme – what is a limited cost trader?
- Your responsibilities if registered for VAT
- VAT recovery on car leasing
- Reclaiming VAT on a self-build home project
- When not to charge VAT
- Which supplies are zero rated for VAT?
- Do you charge VAT when you sell a company car?
- Check a UK VAT number is authentic
- VAT Annual Accounting – filing your return
- Work out your VAT fuel scale charge
- Penalty points for late filing of VAT returns
- Advantages of VAT Flat Rate Scheme
- VAT on goods you export
- Benefits of the VAT Cash Accounting Scheme
- Exception from VAT registration
- VAT – Entertainment provided to directors and partners of a business
- Unauthorised issue of a VAT invoice
- When you cannot charge VAT
- VAT late filing penalties
- VAT – digital record keeping
- VAT relief for the disabled
- Using the VAT Cash Accounting Scheme
- VAT Annual Accounting
- VAT – advantages of the VAT Flat Rate Scheme
- VAT exempt supplies
- When can you deregister for VAT?
- Changes to VAT on donations to charities
- VAT Road Fuel Scale Charges
- Understanding VAT Bad Debt Relief
- VAT if you sell your business
- How VAT Payments on Account Work
- VAT and the goods you use in your own business
- What’s included in your VAT return
- Health services exempt from VAT
- Claiming VAT on pre-registration purchases
- When can you recover VAT on a car purchase
- VAT Reverse Charge in Construction: What You Need to Know
- VAT Flat Rate Scheme overview
- Approaching the VAT registration threshold
- VAT recovery from car leasing payments
- Construction industry – VAT reverse charge
- When you must register for VAT
- VAT group registration
- Late filing penalties VAT returns
- More detail on VAT charge on private school fees
- HMRC launches VAT registration tool
- Using the VAT Annual Accounting Scheme
- Register for VAT One Stop Shop Scheme
- Business VAT responsibilities
- Are mega sized marshmallows zero-rated?
- How to check a UK VAT number
- Reclaiming pre-trading VAT
- Are we unpaid tax collectors?
- Correcting errors in VAT returns
- Check a VAT number
- VAT boost to charitable donations
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